Fair Play

A girl who worked all summer at the Columbia University Library was approached one day by an elderly, beaming student who asked for advice on assembling a bibliography. She was, she said, to write a paper on Communism; what ought she to read? The young lady told her she ought to start with Marx and Lenin. "Oh, no, dear," said the lady. "I should have explained that I want to write an unbiased paper. And after all, they were Communists, weren't they?"